Cecilia Edefalk is a painter of deeply concentrated, expressively oblique images. Edefalk's paintings are largely defined by their seriality. Her works imitate, distort and intensify one another in ways that intentionally blur the distinctions between original and copy. "I discover things in my paintings when I repeat them. It is a way to explore my own work. I am always surprised by the result. I think I can figure out what will happen. But with every new painting, the others change," the artist explained. (http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/edefalk.html)

Cecilia Edefalk, born 1954 in Norrkoping, Sweden, lives in Stockholm.

1982-87 The Royal University College of Fine Arts (KKH), Stockholm, Sweden

1980-81 Birkagårdens folkhögskola, Stockholm, Sweden

1973-77 Konstfack, College of Arts, Crafts & Design, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Solo exhibitions

2008 CECI, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden. 2006/07 Cecilia Edefalk, Eine Ausstellung der Kunsthalle zu Kiel in der Antikensammlung, Kunsthalle Kiel. 2006 Focus: Cecilia Edefalk, Art Institute of Chicago

 

Group exhibitions

2009 Viewing plants - Cecilia Edefalk and Hilma af Klint, Nordic Watercolourmuseum, Skärhamn, Sweden. Caspar David Friedrich - Nature Animated and Friedrich, Eight Contemporary Commentaries, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. 2002 documenta 11_Platform5, Kassel

 

Publications

Viewing Plants - Cecilia Edefalk and Hilma af Klimt The Nordic Watercolourmuseum, Skärhamn, 2009

Cecilia Edefalk in der Antikensammlung der Kunsthalle zu Kiel 2007, ed Dirk Luckow, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2007

The Moderna Exhibition 2006, eds Magdalena Malm and John Peter Nilsson, St Ives, Plymouth, 2006

Vitamin P - New perspectives in Painting, Text by Mario Kramer, Phaidon Press Limited, London 2002